news release<\/a>. <\/p>\nIf convicted, Hidalgo faces a maximum of 21 years in state prison, according to the release. <\/p>\n
Hidalgo has worked as a deputy in the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department since 2021 and is on administrative leave, officials said. <\/p>\n
On Aug. 8, Ring camera footage showed Shaw, 35, leaving the couple\u2019s apartment to walk her dog around 5:10 a.m. and returning around 5:20 a.m. <\/p>\n
Hidalgo allegedly shot Shaw nine times after she returned to the apartment, including in the torso, right arm and head, according to the release. The gunshots were in \u201cclose intermediate range\u201d and were less than 8 inches from Shaw\u2019s head.<\/p>\n
Hidalgo called 911 and gave Shaw CPR, but Shaw was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHuman life is our most precious gift, and to lose the gift of life in your own home at the hands of someone you were engaged to is an indescribable tragedy,\u201d Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in the news release. \u201cThe badge is not a shield from prosecution; rather it is a symbol of the oath a sworn officer takes to uphold the law, on and off duty. When that oath is broken, the law applies equally to those with and without a badge and our duty to pursue justice for Brittany and all of those who loved her will be pursued in a court of law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six months after fatally shooting her fianc\u00e9e in their Tustin apartment, an Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy has turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2640,163,165,164,98294,98293,36294,98292,6244,721,65259,8801,11075,7214,5274,14363,315,98291],"class_list":["post-214245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-a-m","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-badge","tag-deputy-shot-fiancee","tag-head","tag-hidalgo","tag-human-life","tag-law","tag-office-news-release","tag-orange-county-district-attorney","tag-orange-county-sheriff","tag-prosecutor","tag-release","tag-shaw","tag-time","tag-tustin-apartment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}